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A system engineering approach to rail engine design.

Publication: African Review of Business and Technology
Publication Date: 01-MAY-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A system engineering approach to rail engine design.(Company Focus)(MTU Series 4000)

Article Excerpt
THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION and maintenance of diesel traction systems for railway trains are among MTU's core capabilities--and have been for nearly 100 years. As long ago as 1924, the company was developing and manufacturing production engines for scheduled service trains.

In 1933, its diesel engines provided the motive power for the legendary Fliegende Hamburger, the first high-speed railcar. And from the early Fifties through to the Seventies, MTU supplied more than 4,000 diesel engines to the Deutsche Bundesbahn, thereby playing a major part in its full-scale programme of conversion to diesel power. The extensive experience and specialist knowledge gained from such history and tradition are the basis of MTU's comprehensive expertise in system engineering and the company is among...

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